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    Main Street and Other Poems
    Main Street and Other Poems
    Main Street and Other Poems
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    Main Street and Other Poems

    By Joyce Kilmer

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    Release dateNov 1, 1998

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      Main Street and Other Poems - Joyce Kilmer

      Project Gutenberg's Main Street and Other Poems, by Alfred Joyce Kilmer

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Main Street and Other Poems

      Author: Alfred Joyce Kilmer

      Release Date: July 6, 2008 [EBook #264]

      Last Updated: February 4, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS ***

      Produced by A. Light, and Linda Bowser, and David Widger

      MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS

      by Alfred Joyce Kilmer

      [Alfred Joyce Kilmer, American

      (New Jersey & New York) Poet — 1886-1918.]

      [A number of these poems originally appeared in various periodicals.]

      To Mrs. Edmund Leamy

      CONTENTS

      MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS

      Main Street

      Roofs

      The Snowman in the Yard

      A Blue Valentine

      Houses

      In Memory

      Apology

      The Proud Poet

      Lionel Johnson

      Father Gerard Hopkins, S. J.

      Gates and Doors

      The Robe of Christ

      The Singing Girl

      The Annunciation

      Roses

      The Visitation

      Multiplication

      Thanksgiving

      The Thorn

      The Big Top

      Queen Elizabeth Speaks

      Mid-ocean in War-time

      In Memory of Rupert Brooke

      The New School

      Easter Week

      The Cathedral of Rheims

      Kings

      The White Ships and the Red

      MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS

      Main Street

      (For S. M. L.)

      I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea,

      But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to be

      When it all was covered over with a couple of feet of snow,

      And over the crisp and radiant road the ringing sleighs would go.

      Now, Main Street bordered with autumn leaves, it was a pleasant thing,

      And its gutters were gay with dandelions early in the Spring;

      I like to think of it white with frost or dusty in the heat,

      Because I think it is humaner than any other street.

      A city street that is busy and wide is ground by a thousand wheels,

      And a burden of traffic on its breast is all it ever feels:

      It is dully conscious of weight and speed and of work that never ends,

      But it cannot be human like Main Street, and recognise its friends.

      There were only about a hundred teams on Main Street in a day,

      And twenty or thirty people, I guess, and some children out to play.

      And there wasn't a wagon or buggy, or a man or a girl or a boy

      That Main Street didn't remember, and somehow seem to enjoy.

      The truck and the motor and trolley car and the elevated train

      They make the weary city street reverberate with pain:

      But there is yet an echo left deep down within my heart

      Of the music the Main Street cobblestones made beneath a butcher's cart.

      God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,

      That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.

      Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a Pearly Crown,

      But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street, Heaventown.

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